Anyone else like old lorries?

[M3John]

Some fantastic info being provided here guy's to go with my pictures. Thank you very much

BLUETHUNDER; just goes to show that your an old git mate ! Unlike me who's in his 20's..........................................just

[funk odyssey]

BruceV8 said:

M3John said:

This is a Guy Big J. Guy was owned by Jaguar and guess what Big J stands for?

and this one was bought by a steel firm in Wolves and stored in their shed for the best part of 10 years 'til it was registered which explains its B reg

Edited by funk odyssey on Friday 7th November 22:50

[BLUETHUNDER]

Brilliant thread this.Keep them coming.

[RetroWheels]

ZR1cliff said:

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These old AEC's look so Majestic here , dedcades out of date , battered but still grafting.

Beautifull.

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[Stack]

Loving this thread bringing back lots of memories for a child born in the 70's

[kprm77]

These stolen from a thread on the KintyreForum on a run by the Dumfries Transport Preservation Group.





















More pics on the original thread Here

[robm3]

RetroWheels said:

ZR1cliff said:

I see plenty of trucks like this rural Slovakia, I'll get some shots next time I'm there...(they also have weird extreme cambers on the rear wheels)

[funk odyssey]

robm3 said:

RetroWheels said:

ZR1cliff said:

I see plenty of trucks like this rural Slovakia, I'll get some shots next time I'm there...(they also have weird extreme cambers on the rear wheels)

the fibreglass version of this cab suffered from falling out screens as the plastic cracked

the radiator is fairly high mounted which means it can't get clogged with ste on site

these days the trucks don't get scrapped or used on site they just go to Africa

[funk odyssey]

M3John said:

Right then guys had a quick scan through `tinternet and these are the ones that spring to mind straight away. Just love the way they look, real tough looking things ! Any other info on any of then would be great as i know pretty much nothing other than the way they look ...

Early steam powered Sentinel.

although steam vehicles are, I believe restricted to 12mph these days, in the 1930's steam trucks like this were as fast, if not capable of higher speeds than their diesel rivals

their only real downside was the time taken to steam up in the morning

M3John said:

scammell had a go at designing a forward control cab for the Handyman mk1 - they are rare and ugly - not nearly as good as the Highwayman (the pic shows a Trunker)

these cabs were designed by Giovanni Michelotti who designed the Triumph Herald bodywork - in production for nearly 20 years 'til BL imposed the more modern but infintely more boring T45 cab

[Graham]

BruceV8 said:

They were replaced by these, Bedford 14 tonners (relating to the payload, not the gross vehicle weight). They were a revelation to us at the time but would probably be considered classics now:



And of course we had the workhorse of the army, the Bedford MJ 4 tonner:

I've got a soft spot for those two. I did my test in an MJ and on my year out from Uni in southampton I was with 233 sqn RCT (155 wessex regiment RCT) who had the 14 ton Tm's and a couple of 8ton TM's

the TM's were light years away from the MJ with power everything, although the 14t tended to go where it wanted off road the 8 was fantastic... I still keep looking at adverts for mj's

G


always fancied the old scammel explorer with that huge Rolls motor, or maybe a Stolly !! Managed a cabby in a scammel commander ( tank Carrier) that thing was huge...

[Stack]

I remember loads of blue circle cement tankers using this cab design, heading to & from Eastgate Durham in the 70's early 80's

Edited by Stack on Saturday 8th November 15:08

[funk odyssey]

Stack said:

I remember loads of blue circle cement tankers using this cab design, heading to & from from Eastgate Durham in the 70's early 80's

not many left because they used to be cut up to prevent others using them - the tank and ancilleries were expensive to buy

this one is on the rally circuit and the owner has another in rougher condition too

[King Herald]

Olf said:

I've got a thing for old Scammels.

I have a few piccies I took of trucks much like that in Rajasthan, when I was an 'umble backpacker some 18 years ago. I thought they were dead cool and toyed with the idea of buying one to travel about it, but they were junk yard dogs, maintained at poverty level, with string and wire and prayers.

Reminds me, I've been saying for a decade that I will scan all my old piccies to disk one of these days, when I have a few weeks to spare.....

[Stack]

Funk odessy thanks for the Blue Circle pic, hat has certainly brought back memories for me

Great thread this ...!

[funk odyssey]

Stack said:

Funk odessy thanks for the Blue Circle pic, hat has certainly brought back memories for me

Great thread this ...!

here's a slightly less healthy looking Routeman resting in Harrisons yard

[funk odyssey]

M3John said:

Right then guys had a quick scan through `tinternet and these are the ones that spring to mind straight away. Just love the way they look, real tough looking things ! Any other info on any of then would be great as i know pretty much nothing other than the way they look ...

that Scammell Trunker was an experimental version built with a range change gearbox rather than the usual 6 speed to see if it could cope with the imminent change of MGW to 38ton. With the Rolls 265 (which was installed later I think) it is indeed a beast!

[BruceV8]

ZR1cliff said:

Some old AEC Mammoth Majors working on the M25 in the 80's

Just checked the link that Cliff posted about these, and they are doubly interesting to me now. The scene is the M40/M25 juntion under construction, which is just down the road from me - I live in Harefield.

As it happens the originally planned route for the M25 would have taken it through J1 of the M40 at the Denham roundabout, as part of the London Ringways scheme. You can still see the extra wide hard shoulders and massive bridge where the slip roads were going to be. The roundabout there is absolutely huge to acomodate the M25 and a spur off to another motorway (Ringway 3) that was never built. (Actually its not a roundabout any more -it was too fast so is now a two lane single carriageway ring).

But I digress. Old lorries - they're ace!

[BLUETHUNDER]

My father and his family had a haulage business,not long after the end of WW11.It ran until 1969.And in that period some of the trucks they used were a 1947 A.E.C.
1947 Leyland Hippo
1963 Albion Rever
1960 Mercedes 338

Does anyone have any pics of the above vehicles,especially the Merc 338,as its this one he always talks fondly of.

[BLUETHUNDER]

Thanks for that.

[BLUETHUNDER]

Well John.After some investigation will friends in the Military Vehicle world.It turns out that the Antar you were so fascinated by was/and still is owned by Earl Attlee.Aka Viscount John Prestwood.Its normally accompanied at shows with either a Conqueror M.B.T or Centurion ARV.Come to think of it now.I saw the set up at Beltring a few years back with the Conqueror.